Mrs Havisham Recreated...

Wow... recreating Miss Havisham was a real challenge, exciting but challenging. It was difficult to make a young lady look aged. it was an experience, but with everything i had learnt i just had to put it all together. At first i didnt want to make my Miss Havisham really old because she wasn't? But it had to be modernised.

Unfortuantely my model had extremly short hair and i wanted to create the curls at the front of the head just as Miss Havisham had throught out the film, so luckily hair extensions came in helpful.

This is my favourite image above, using an old mirror as a prop i took the photo through the reflection, and i really like the outcome. 

I wanted to create the effect of route, flakey, dry lips as Miss Havisham had, so by using a silver Gold Leaf i could create a similar effect.

Mrs Havisham..

Miss Havisham is the character which in my opinion has a lot more excitement to it, I can begin to play around with not only ageing someone but also their body parts such as fingers as this is something I would like to include In the shot of her.

In the end Miss Havisham is consumed by a fire (a Christian image of cleansing, as well as punishment). But throughout the book/film she and her personal belongings are just gathering dust and slowly decaying around her. She wasn’t particularly old she just appeared it as she’d become damaged by the lack of sunlight and fresh air.

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film)

 I came across this film ‘What Ever Happened To Baby Jane’, I watched and researched up about it, to begin to see a visible link in the storylines of this and Great Expectations. There are 2 characters ‘Baby Jane’ and “Miss Havisham’ which I believe have similar character traits.

Summary-

 “In a tale that almost redefines sibling rivalry, faded actresses Blanche and 'Baby' Jane Hudson live together. Jane was by far the most famous when she performed with their father in vaudeville but as they got older, it was Blanche who became the finer actress, which Jane still resents. Blanche is now confined to a wheelchair - Jane ran her over with the car while drunk, even though she has no memory of it - and Jane is firmly in control. As time goes by, Jane exercises greater and greater control over her sister, intercepting her letters and ensuring that few if anyone from the outside has any contact with her. As Jane slowly loses her mind, she torments her sister going to ever greater extremes.”

Estella

So I did my shoot for Estella!! I used my friend Kristie as she already matched Estella perfectly! With flawless skin, a youthful look and natural brown hair she was easy to work with. 
I found creating the character Estella quite simple, as she didnt wear much makeup. But as we were photographing our models we still had to apply makeup to make sure we had flawless skin. I was extremly lucky to have Kristie as my model.
With Estella i chose to do a teen/ young adult version, i began by applying a light base to match her skin tone. After applying the base foundation, we made sure we jumped infront of the camera we would be using to make sure it was exactly what i was looking for. Unfortunately the first time round i had matched the foundation to her skin tone too well, which usually would be a good thing however in the victorians they had rather pale skin. This was important to me also as this was the main part of her makeup. So after removing it and starting fresh i finally got it!! This meant i could move on to sculpting the face! Using Illamasqua Disobey blush i began to sculpt parts of Kristies face such as her cheek bones and above her eyelid, this made her face more defined. Then topping it off with a rouge pink blusher to add colour to her cheeks.

I was very excited to start with the hair, but nothing goes perfect all the time! it was more of a challenge, and although i had practised in the studio and at home i had never actually practised on Kristie and every bodys hair/ head shapes are different. which i realised at this point. However i had to power on, the problem i had was creating the barrell rolls across the top of her head at the front, i managed to do it fine but it did not look correct on Kristies head. With quick thinking on the spot i continued and pulled the rest of her hair back in to a tight bun at the back which had to plaits leading to it. At the front with the hair i had left over i created some curls and kept it in a centre parting but pulled more hair back.

























These are my final outcome images! i am proud of them but there is always room for improvement and i can see where it stands out in these images.